Hugh Hollowell

I recently submitted an article to Jesus Manifesto, a website that exists to “subvert the Empire (wherever it is found). But more importantly, it exists to call people to embrace the Kingdom of God.”. Sounds like my sort of people.
In any event, they published it. I thought I would share it with you here, [...]

One of the writing gigs I do is reviewing books and writing blurbs for “Christian” oriented books. One I am currently working on is Fields of the Fatherless, by Tom Davis. A beautiful book, I was particularly taken by the introduction by Steven Curtis Chapman, a Christian recording artist. In the introduction to the [...]

For Christmas, some friends gave me a gift card to Borders Books. Me being me, I wasted no time in running up there and buying a book I had had my eye on, but was reluctant to shell out my hard earned (and largly absent) cash for. Now I wish I had bought this book [...]

if it doesn’t come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don’t do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don’t do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing it for money or
fame,
don’t do it.
if you’re [...]

To be a writer is to be a shuttlecock in a badminton game, one racquet of which is naive optimism and the other a cynical despair.  (John Jerome, The Writing Trade)

I am an email addict.
I belong to a ton of industry forums, several Memphis area mailing lists and have all the usual business email, orders, and so on. In all, I have some 100-200 emails in my inbox, every day.
The one thing that strikes me is how many of them are simply… unreadable.
Here, in no [...]